Re:When Are the Intelligent Aliens?
by sampo on Sunday June 30, 2013 @02:18PM
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The black space is at about 3 Kelvin temperature. A Dyson sphere would necessarily (the star inside would heat it) have a much higher temperature than mere 3 K above the absolute zero. Thus it would radiate heat according to whatever its temperature, and be quite distinct compared to the cold back space background.
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This is assuming that the creators of the Dyson sphere haven't also figured out how to absorb the heat energy with extremely high efficiency.
You are assuming they'd have figured out how to break the laws of thermodynamics as we know it.